Our findings highlight the discursive strategies employed to represent embodied experiences of a stigmatised condition in an online forum. We focus particularly on the use of embodied explanatory models for mental ill health in mothers to mitigate the stigma attached to the condition. Our study ...
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My son starts reception on Wednesday. He's awaiting his assessment but we're also on the waiting list for occupational therapy and a meeting with the local childrens mental health team for his anxiety, referrals done by his GP. His nursery and Paediatrician strongly believe he's autistic. ...
This was obviously a terribly traumatic time as a new mother and had a significant impact on my mental health. Things did not go as he had hoped and he ended up seeing baby in contact centre because the judge saw he is abusive. We are now some years down the line and he sees his ...
Support groups also help with normalising your feelings and give you a focus from week to week. If you want to chat to other women, Mumsnet's postnatal health forum is available 24/7. Get support, empathy and help from other people who know what you're going through. ...
Support groups also help with normalising your feelings and give you a focus from week to week. If you want to chat to other women, Mumsnet's postnatal health forum is available 24/7. Get support, empathy and help from other people who know what you're going through. ...
it can feel like a severe blow. You're likely to have lots of questions and feel in need of a bit of succour, too, and often the best people to offer that are those who have been there themselves.Mumsnet’s infertility forumis full of advice, experiences and support from those who ...
year left at university and is living at home. So now I have to live alongside this man ( separate bedrooms anyway because he snores) in a way that doesn't affect my son ( I'm not going to tell my son of my plans because stability at uni is too important) or my mental health. ...
I have never had any mental health issues. He is aggressive towards me in the presence of my children and is always shouting at or around them and one of the reasons I've struggled to leave is that if he gains or shares custody, I will not be around all the time to protect the ...
It's going to be a long road but it can be a beautiful one. You can feel fulfilled and have a life that makes you truly happy. There is some emotional and mental work to do in changing the patterns your mother programmed in you. When you change those patterns in yourself the world ...